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Hunt Statue in
Bennington, Vermont

This bronze statue grouping by sculptor Clyde DuVernet Hunt depicts three symbols: Abraham
Lincoln as Charity, a kneeling woman as Faith, and a child as Hope. Called
"The Spirit of America," the work was displayed at the New York World's Fair in 1939
before arriving at the courtyard of the Bennington Museum on West Main Street.

Hunt, who came from a prominent Vermont family, was born in Scotland in 1861
and spent many years in Paris. After his death in 1941 his heirs donated the statue in
his memory explaining that Hunt "held the martyred President
in great and beautiful reverence."